A Writer’s Blog

  • Is it possible to protect the United States from ISIS jihadi attacks?

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Yellow journalism is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration, and a yellow journalist dressed up as an ISIS jihadi was videotaped as he walked across the border to Texas from Mexico with a fake severed head in hand, and the story made the news on September 5, 2014,… Read more

  • Hot Coffee reveals the Capitalist threat to all aspects of Democracy

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: My wife and I watched an award winning documentary Thursday night (September 4, 2014). It was called “Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served?” The DVD for the documentary was released November 1, 2011, and Amazon sells the DVD for more than $24.00, but you may be… Read more

  • The Corporate Global Privatizing Complex

    Originally posted on educationalchemy: Most folks are versed in (or at least have heard of) terms like “military industrial complex,” “factory farms” or even “education industrial complex” (a phrase used by educator Troy Grant and others). I believe these terms are still useful for a qualitative description of some of the facets of what we… Read more

  • Jeff Bryant: Time to Regulate Charter Schools

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jeff Bryant of the Education Opportunity Network notes that the charter industry has launched an advertising campaign to sell the charter idea to the public. But, writes Bryant, there have been so many revelations of corruption, self-dealing, and rogiterring by charter schools in recent months that the public should… Read more

  • NPR Whitewashes Charter Schools and Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: It was bad enough when NPR whitewashed the “grit” narrative, but now NPR is whitewashing charter schools and disaster capitalism in New Orleans. Framed as “remarkable changes,” erasing public schools and firing all public school faculty (a significant percentage of the black middle class in New Orleans) are whitewashed beneath… Read more

  • Milwaukee: Ruth Conniff on the Disgrace of Voucher Schools

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Last May, Ruth Conniff, editor of “The Progressive,” joined a group of other women on a tour of voucher schools in Milwaukee. The others included another journalist, a state legislator, and Milwaukee grandmothers Gail Hicks and Marva Herndon. “Herndon and Hicks formed a group called Women Committed to an… Read more